Melanie Monteclaro Pace

Doctoral Candidate
mrp8fw@virginia.eduPh.D. anticipated 2022
M.S.W., University of North Carolina, Charlotte
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Religious Studies & Psychology)
SPECIALTIES
20th-century American religion, evangelicalism, and Mormonism. Gender, sexuality, and religion. Sexual violence and trauma.
Melanie studies the development of American spirituality as a resource for personal transformation and political action in the twentieth century.
- Gender & sexuality
- Feminist spirituality
- Religion & social reform
- History of psychology & social work
- “Spiritual but not religious”
- Ethnographic approaches